[Later than January 5, 1909]

**The Current Moment:**

Para. 1.

3. a) Objective tasks have not been resolved.
2. b) Economic crisis.
1. c) A step toward Bonapartism in the agrarian sphere, in the general political sphere.

4. d) National-liberalism.
5. e) International complications*.
Oppression of nationalities (Finland, etc.)
Softening of the petty and middle bourgeoisie and intelligentsia

**Tasks of the Party**
The Duma exposed.**

1) work in the army
2) strike out the last point
3) addition on the petty bourgeoisie
4) strike out the word Bonapartism.
5) Characterization of the comparative distinctions between the past and future upsurge.
6) International situation.
7) The necessity of armed uprising and a democratic republic.
8) The importance of military tactics.

The published notes were made by V. I. Lenin during the work of the V All-Russian Conference of the RSDLP while discussing in commission the draft resolution written by Lenin "On the Contemporary Moment and the Tasks of the Party" (see Complete Collected Works, vol. 17, pp. 325–328).

The V All-Russian Conference of the RSDLP took place in Paris on January 3–9 (new style), 1909.

Sixteen delegates with decisive votes participated in the conference: 5 Bolsheviks, 3 Mensheviks, 5 Polish Social-Democrats, and 3 Bundists.

The central place in the conference's work was occupied by Lenin's report "On the Contemporary Moment and the Tasks of the Party." The Bolsheviks attached great importance to this question, as the conference was to determine a tactical line corresponding to the difficult conditions of the party's work during the years of reaction. The Mensheviks made an unsuccessful attempt to remove this question from the conference's agenda.

In discussing the resolution submitted by Lenin, the Mensheviks proposed to indicate that autocracy was becoming not a bourgeois, but a plutocratic monarchy (for a critique of this amendment, see V. I. Lenin's article "'Shift' of the Bourgeoisie and the Tasks of the Proletariat"—Complete Collected Works, vol. 17, p. 409). The Menshevik amendment was rejected by an overwhelming majority of votes.

The conference adopted, with minor changes, the resolution proposed by Lenin (see "CPSU in Resolutions and Decisions of Congresses, Conferences, and Plenums of the CC," 1970, vol. 1, pp. 249–251).

* This note was made by V. I. Lenin in black ink.
** This note was made by V. I. Lenin in pencil on the same page.